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Henry and Maudslay
Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.
Henry Maudslay, who trained a school of machine tool makers early in the 19th century, was employed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, as a young man where he would have seen the large horse-driven wooden machines for cannon boring made and worked by the Verbruggans.
Henry Maudslay built a bench micrometer in the early 19th century that was jocularly nicknamed " the Lord Chancellor " among his staff because it was the final judge on measurement accuracy and precision in the firm's work.
He then moved to London where he found employment working for Henry Maudslay, the inventor of the screw-cutting lathe, alongside such people as James Nasmyth ( inventor of the steam hammer ) and Richard Roberts.
During the summer of 1799 Brunel was introduced to Henry Maudslay, a talented machine tool maker who had been a manager for Joseph Bramah, and had recently started his own business.
* Henry Maudslay, engineer and tool-maker, was born in Salutation Alley ( now demolished ) and buried in the parish churchyard of St Mary Magdalen's.
During the 1790s Henry Maudslay created the first screw-cutting lathe, a watershed event that signaled the start of blacksmiths being replaced by machinists in factories for the hardware needs of the populace.
Henry Maudslay ( pronunciation and spelling ) ( 22 August 1771 – 14 February 1831 ) was a British machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor.
Henry Maudslay played his part in the development of mechanical engineering when it was in its infancy, but he was especially pioneering in the development of machine tools to be used in engineering workshops across the world.
* Maudslay Motor Company, founded by Walter H. Maudslay, great grandson of Henry Maudslay.
* John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson, eds., Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age, 2002, Tempus Publishing, Ltd, pb., ( ISBN 0-7524-2766-0 ) This is a collection of essays by various specialists, and comprises biographies of Maudslay, Roberts, Napier, Clement, Whitworth, Nasmyth and Muir, as well as an account of the London Engineering Scene at the time of Maudslay, and an account of the firm from the death of Maudslay in 1831 until its demise in 1904.
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* Richard Thorp as Squadron Leader Henry Maudslay DFC RAF, pilot of " Zebra "

Henry and Founder
Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.
Founder Henry J. Heinz began packing foodstuffs on a small scale at Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1869.
Henry Kravis, Founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
* Henry Kravis, MBA 1969, Billionaire Founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
* Henry Swieca, MBA 1982, Billionaire Co-Founder of Highbridge Capital Management, Founder of Talpion
Henry, by the grace of God and constitutional law of the state, King of Haiti, Sovereign of Tortuga, Gonâve, and other adjacent islands, Destroyer of tyranny, Regenerator and Benefactor of the Haïtian nation, Creator of her moral, political, and martial institutions, First crowned monarch of the New World, Defender of the faith, Founder of the Royal Military Order of Saint Henry.
Sharp, Founder and Artistic Director, Axis Theatre Co, noted Greenwich Village based experimental theatre company, and Director of independent film including the award winning Henry May Long
* Henry Harrison Culver, Founder of the Culver Military Academy, located in Culver, Indiana
Founder trustees included Harvard University president Charles William Eliot, philanthropist Robert S. Brookings, former U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph Hodges Choate, former Secretary of State John W. Foster, and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching president Henry Smith Pritchett.
Founder McMichael combed the local bookstores for a story to produce and found it in Henry Byron's The Nymphs of the Lurleyburg.
* Henry Muhlenberg ( 1711-1787 ) Founder of the Lutheran Church in America
* William Henry Aspinwall ( 1807-1875 ) Founder of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Panama Railroad.
* Henry Jackson — Founder of OpCapita.
Lieut Richard Henry Pratt, Founder and Superintendent of Carlisle Indian School, in Military Uniform and With Sword 1879.
* Wava Banes Henry, Beta ( Founder & Life Member )
Founder and publisher Henry Barnes completed only two issues of the weekly abolitionist publication before selling it and returning to Detroit.
When the College of St Mary Magdalen was founded in the reign of King Henry VI by William of Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, the Founder ordained that in addition to forty senior scholars, or Fellows, there should be thirty poor scholars, commonly called Demies, of good morals and dispositions fully equipped for study.

Henry and precision
Heinrich Göbel, later Henry Goebel ( April 20, 1818 – December 4, 1893 ), born in Springe, Germany, was a precision mechanic.
In 1881 Henry Goebel worked as a kind of consultant for the American Electric Light Co. Obviously there was a need for precision mechanics for the construction of electric lamps.
Abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher collected funds to arm like-minded settlers with Sharps rifles, leading to the precision rifles becoming known as " Beecher's Bibles.
The chair of the judges, Henry Sutton, described it as a landmark, vast in scope and '" written with an unnerving precision, clarity and grace ", adding " amazingly accessible, it's written with great grace and enthusiasm and humour, and is also a scholarly work.

Henry and engineering
Three years before Davis ' lectures, Henry Edward Armstrong taught a degree course in chemical engineering at the City and Guilds of London Institute.
The 1891 founding professors included Robert Allardice in mathematics, Douglas Houghton Campbell in botany, Charles Henry Gilbert in zoology, George Elliott Howard in history, Oliver Peebles Jenkins in physiology and histology, Charles David Marx in civil engineering, Fernando Sanford in physics and John Maxson Stillman in chemistry.
She was accepted to the membership of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1926, becoming its second female member ; the society later awarded both her and her husband ( posthumously ) the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in 1944 for her contributions to industrial engineering.
The Virginian Railway ( VGN ), an engineering marvel of its day, was conceived and built by William Nelson Page and Henry Huttleston Rogers.
The earliest use of the term " state of the art " documented by the Oxford English Dictionary dates back to 1910, from an engineering manual by Henry Harrison Suplee ( 1856-post 1943 ), an engineering graduate ( University of Pennsylvania, 1876 ), titled Gas Turbine: progress in the design and construction of turbines operated by gases of combustion.
* John Henry Holland ( born 1929 ), American scientist and professor of psychology and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan
Studebaker's strong post-war management team including president Paul G Hoffman and Roy Cole ( vice-president, engineering ) had gone by 1949 and was replaced by more cautious executives who failed to meet the competitive challenge brought on by Henry Ford II and his Whiz Kids.
Early medical and sanitary engineering reformers included Henry Austin, Joseph Bazalgette, Edwin Chadwick, Frank Forster, Thomas Hawksley, William Haywood, Henry Letheby, Robert Rawlinson, Sir John Simon and Thomas Wicksteed.
In 1929 Sir Henry Birkin built the first supercharged Blower Bentley car at his engineering works in Broadwater Road.
Kretz has worked with several notable artists, particularly engineering and mixing the live recordings for The Henry Rollins Show of songs by artists such as Thom Yorke, Ben Harper, Damian Marley, Slayer, Jurassic 5, Death Cab for Cutie, and more.
William Henry Barlow FRS FRSE FICE MIMechE ( 10 May 1812 – 12 November 1902 ) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects.
The Arsenal was a renowned centre of excellence in mechanical engineering, with notable engineers including Samuel Bentham, Marc Isambard Brunel and Henry Maudslay employed there.
Henry Ford's movable assembly line drew on regional experience in meat processing, agricultural machinery manufacture, and the industrial engineering of steel in revolutionizing the modern era of mass production manufacturing.
Henry Charles Beck ( 4 June 1902 – 18 September 1974 ), known as Harry Beck, was an English engineering draftsman best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931.
In particular it can be used to investigate the structure and properties of a wide range of materials from proteins ( to provide information for designing new and better drugs ), and engineering components ( such as a fan blade from an aero-engine ) to conservation of archeological artfacts ( for example Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose ).
David Steinman's doctoral thesis in civil engineering at Columbia University was on a design for the Henry Hudson Bridge.
* Design paradigms: case histories of error and judgment in engineering Henry Petroski CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1994 ISBN 978-0-521-46649-3
Henry Cogswell College was founded in 1979 in Kirkland, Washington as Cogswell College North ( at the time, an affiliate of Cogswell College in Sunnyvale, California ), largely to provide engineering education to local Boeing employees.
Having come to London on the advice of Dr. Henry Pemberton ( 1694 – 1771 ), who had recognised Robins ' talents, for a time he maintained himself by teaching mathematics, but soon devoted himself to engineering and the study of fortification.
Despite having little experience in locomotive engineering, in 1931 Lemon was appointed to the post of Chief Mechanical Engineer replacing the retiring Henry Fowler.

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